Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice

This book explores the concepts of power and empowerment and their relationship to the public health system. It provides both theoretical discussion and concrete examples of how health practitioners can help individuals, groups, and communities to gain power, and it supplies a context for measurement and analysis of empowerment.

Contents for the fourth edition of the book, published by Red Globe Press (an imprint of Macmillan):

• Public health practice in context
• Power and empowerment
• Empowerment and public health programmes
• Helping individuals to become empowered
• Patient empowerment
• Helping groups to become more critically aware
• Helping communities to become empowered
• Helping communities to become empowered in disease outbreaks
• Helping migrant populations to become empowered
• The measurement and visual representation of community empowerment

The first translated edition of the book's third edition into Spanish was published in September 2019 as Salud Pública: Poder, Empoderamiento y Práctica Profesional. The third edition of the book has also been translated into Italian and Chinese.